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Nowra is quiet. And oddly expensive for somewhere that's 'small town'. Apparently the prices are geared towards the tourist trade, which is the spring-summer-autumn crowd. Now that we're heading into winter, the tourists are gone but the prices haven't.

It's rather strange to come from working in an office that was mostly women (Rheem) to an office that is mostly men. Different culture.

I'm really going to need to set up some social networks around the town. Probably through a local church group, although some kind of sporting thing would be good, too. I either have to join a gym or a sporting group. The gym would be better for building muscle, the sporting group better for general socialising and health.

There's an ant crawling over the base of my flatscreen monitor. A single ant. I think he stowed away in the pomegranite I got off my grandmother; he seems kind of lost. Am contemplating putting him out of his misery - a single ant, all alone in a world of computer desks, without his colony community. Is he going to survive out here?

It'd be a bit lonely to be the only one of your kind around when you're used to being in a community.

I just killed him. RIP Mr. Ant.

Okay, I located the local university campus' accomodation site and have five pages of share accomodation in the surrounding towns around Nowra - there doesn't seem to be much in the town. And do you know how many of the numbers are no longer connected? Either a lot of people couldn't afford to live where they used to be living and had to move out, or there are a lot of students who've crashed and burned in the last couple of months!

I have about five places to check out tonight and tomorrow night, so we'll see how those go. Otherwise, I might have to start looking further out - there was an advert for a place in Berry, which would occasion actually having to wake up before 7am in order to arrive at work by 7:30. Although it would be an easy, casual drive, unlike the fraught 45 minutes of dodging and weaving and traffic lights and manic drivers that infests Sydney's roads.

Writing is something that happens to other people right now. So I'll just sit back and read Labyrinth by Kate Mosse. (I'm rather intrigued, it's pretty interesting.)

Must remember to call my mum, too.

Date: 2007-05-08 07:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] saramund.livejournal.com
is it okay that I grieved (briefly) for Mr Ant?

Cause I did.

Good luck finding acc!

Date: 2007-05-08 12:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seldearslj.livejournal.com
is it okay that I grieved (briefly) for Mr Ant?

I still feel kinda guilty about killing him. But he just looked so lonely. :(

Date: 2007-05-08 08:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sharp2799.livejournal.com
He could have been the scout ant, who would have then returned to his group and said, hey, follow me!

Um...where the heck are you? It's spring in NYC. (And hope you don't mind my popping in and commenting.)

Date: 2007-05-08 11:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ishara.livejournal.com
But given his abrupt demise, perhaps it's better that he didn't... ;)

Date: 2007-05-08 12:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seldearslj.livejournal.com
Quite so! I have some very nice sugary cookies in a box on my desk.

And where there's one ant, there's usually a lot more. I just don't know where this sole ant came from!

Date: 2007-05-08 12:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seldearslj.livejournal.com
Australia. It's autumn here, heading on to winter.

And I never mind people dropping in and commenting!

Date: 2007-05-08 09:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cyberchezza.livejournal.com
I get the impression you were identifying with Mr Ant a little too much there... Right up to the point where you killed him, of course ;)

Date: 2007-05-08 12:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seldearslj.livejournal.com
Actually, not so much. But I did feel a bit sorry for him. :(

Date: 2007-05-08 10:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sharim.livejournal.com
Poor Mr Ant. *sniffles*

Do you know that Berry is kinda pretty. And you should go diving at JB. Just a thought ;)

Date: 2007-05-08 12:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seldearslj.livejournal.com
I know that Berry is very pretty! Which is why I'm going to consider getting a couple of the addresses and details from there tomorrow.

I'll have a look around JB on the weekend, I think. Hopefully the traffic won't be too bad...

Date: 2007-05-08 12:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sharim.livejournal.com
*LAUGHS*

Hopefully the traffic won't be too bad????

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA>

Date: 2007-05-08 12:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cailetr.livejournal.com
I was thinking that you and Mr Ant could have bonded and found new friends together. Then you squashed him and his tiny dreams :(

Date: 2007-05-08 12:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seldearslj.livejournal.com
Yes. :(

He's now in the wide open spaces of Ant Heaven where there's always food and never people squashing him flat!

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